Wednesday, July 1, 2020

July CCC: Pandemic and Climate Crisis resources

Creation Corner Column for July 2020: Pandemic and Climate Crisis resources

Reading Lists on "Navigating the Threat of Pandemic", "Care in Uncertain Times", "Environmentalism and Climate Change", etc. (14 in all) from 

dukeupress.edu/syllabi

Pandemic Book Resources

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Mankind for 500,000 years.  Sonia Shah.

A Journal of the Plague Year.  Daniel Defoe (1722).

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History. Catharine Arnold.

Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World.  Slavoj Zizek.

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis.  Ross A. Slotten, M.D.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.  David Quammen.

Understanding Coronavirus.  Raul Rabadan.

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases.  Paul A. Offit.

Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Uncertainty.  Walter Brueggmann.

Climate Crisis Books

Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse.  Roger Hallam.

Disaster By Choice: How Our Actions turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes.  Ilan Kelman.

The Green New Deal and Beyond.  Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can.  Stan Cox; foreword by Noam Chomsky.

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times.  Pablo Sevigne and Raphael Stevens.

Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places.  Julian Hoffman.

Learning To Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis.   Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky.

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate.  Nancy Campbell.

Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis.  Paul Huebener.

Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy.  Robert Vitalis.

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration---and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives.  Danny Dorling.

Through Post-Atomic Eyes.  Claudette Lauzon and John O"Brian, editors.

Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet.  Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D.G. Fraser.

Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes.  James Mumford (environment is one subject).

Of Note

During the recent Global Catholic Climate Movement, a Living Chapel was unveiled at the Botanical Garden of Rome.  Its formal unveiling via streaming video was scheduled for June 5, U.N. World Environment Day.

It will eventually have a permanent home in Assisi, Italy, the birthplace of St. Francis, the patron saint of ecology.

Construction was done with assistance from students and faculty from the Pennsylvania College of Technology, based in Williamsport PA.  

This Creation Corner Column also originates from Williamsport.

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